On Mon, 06 Feb 2012 23:36:15 +0700, Arief M Utama wrote:
> Got a problem here, I have a laptop with pre-installed windows, the
> partition scheme is more-or-less like this:
>
> - 100M partition (hidden) - seems like a Windows-helper partition (I
> read something about it, forgotten now)
> - ~960 GB Windows partition
> - ~20GB Recovery partion
> - ~10M another part of recovery partition
>
> When I tried to install debian,
> What I did was shrinking the 960GB partition to ~900GB, then I thought I
> could have ~60GB for linux.
>
> But then it said the free space is unusable, I cant do any partitioning
> on it.
>
> Anyone familiar with this problem? Is this something to do about the
> partition table can't handle large disk size issue?
Before anything, boot into windows and run "scan disk" and "defrag" for
the windows partition and make a backup copy for the whole disk (if you -
additionally- have a recovery image for the windows install it would be
perfect). Then, use an updated LiveCD version of Gparted and do the
resizing and partitioning/formatting from there. After that, proceed as
usual with Debian installer. This will hopefully minimize the problematic.
> Any help and pointers are appreciated.
>
> Please CC me on your replies as I am not subscribed to debian-user
> currently.
Sorry, I can't ;-(
Greetings,
--
Camaleón